Yahoo on Tuesday will begin offering 100MB of extra storage for users of its free e-mail service as part of an overall redesign of its mail service. Along with the 100MB boost, Yahoo will upgrade Mail Plus paid users to 2GB of storage and lower its yearly subscription from $29.99 a year to $19.99. Other a la carte services, such as POP e-mail forwarding, will consolidate under this plan and no longer be sold on a standalone basis.
The storage boost comes as no surprise. Yahoo arch-rival Google in April announced plans to launch a free e-mail service called "Gmail" with 1GB of storage. The upcoming launch of Gmail has changed the landscape for free-e-mail users, but also raised privacy concerns because of Google's decision to serve advertisements based on scanning the content of e-mail text. Yahoo executives last month announced the company would offer its own storage upgrade as part of overall changes to the service.
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The storage boost comes as no surprise. Yahoo arch-rival Google in April announced plans to launch a free e-mail service called "Gmail" with 1GB of storage. The upcoming launch of Gmail has changed the landscape for free-e-mail users, but also raised privacy concerns because of Google's decision to serve advertisements based on scanning the content of e-mail text. Yahoo executives last month announced the company would offer its own storage upgrade as part of overall changes to the service.
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This sort of thing is not uncommon among Internet and computer users. Microsoft vs Apple, Intel vs AMD. It seems us geeks just can’t help ourselves.
We must remember that both offer “free” services and unbelievable amounts of storage. So what’s at the centre of this storm and why would users of a email service turn to this action? I would hazard a guess “commercialisation”. GMail members are selling & trading invites to what is a free service.
This spawned a new craze, were everyone wants the best email address they can buy, usually their first name, popular companies and even pop stars names. True hysteria built on hype has caused email accounts to become valuable and any rival offering a better service and this is a threat to them.
So when your saving for your pension don’t forget to add a few choice GMail accounts to go along with those 1000’s of catchy domain names your sitting on too…
Update: well it seems that the GMail group won, You’ve Got Post accounts now have a 20mb limit, returning them to the hords of companies offering a similer service. GMail it seams, has kept its crown for now...
without google whe have never get a bigger space for e-mail!!
Dear Yahoo! Mail User,
Thanks for using Yahoo! Mail. It's our goal to offer you an email experience that makes it easy to stay in touch. Periodically, we make service changes to enhance that experience for our users. As of June 16, 2004, you'll enjoy the following benefits:
* Increased storage capacity – from your current level to 100MB
* Increase in individual message send/receive size from 3MB to 10MB
* An improved layout that’s even easier to use
You will continue to access your Yahoo! Mail account as usual. No further action is required, and there will be no interruption of your service.
We hope you enjoy the new features and benefits. If you have any questions, please visit our Help page. Thanks again for using Yahoo! Mail.
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team
My .co.uk yahoo email address has still has POP3 access for free now it has 100mb space. Neat
Last edited by 43979 on 15 Jun 2004 - 09:59
It's, like, the first time in a year and so that I access my Yahoo account.
I wonder if Hotmail is going to get pumped up too...
Thank you, Google!
The ISP's MS and AOl etc all bitch over the amount of spam that forces them to purchase more bandiwth and storage. it said that 90 % or so (pepending on who you listen to) of the mail is spam.
So using this scenerio why offer such huge ammounts of drive space for email anyhow?
As a pay serivice sure I could understand this fully, but how much mail does the average user get of legit non-spam non-business mail anyhow?
KInda sounds like telling the spammers hey look at all the space we have for you to fill up.
It just seems with less spam running around as a whole that we would all benifit as end users with the billions of spam mailings eating up bandwidth on the internet freeways
Though it seems that 100 MB does seem sensible as say a Gig of storage
My useless 2 cents worth
But I dun like the new layout and design.
oh by the way, are there upgrades to the other features like the briefcase and whatnot?
I've got a 6Mb account at the moment, and its a .co.uk one....so fingers crossed
<edit> Got my upgrade now....100Mb of email
Last edited by 1482 on 15 Jun 2004 - 23:42
Briefcase hasnt been upgraded, no hint about future upgrades
My all my .co.uk addresses got the 100Mb phattening up move
(but I get pop3 access for free anyway so it is slightly redundant - apart from receiving a total of 100Mb in attachments across 10 emails - attachment size is limit is still just as small as before so split zips/rars will be required)
It seems Yahoo! Mail is slower than before...... it takes somtime to loads up pages... Hope they can get the speed up a little too...
lol at the "hotmail will be releasing their 3mb upgrade" that was my first thought too.
I'm a happy camper.
Looks like Hotmail needs to give users a reason to stay, and quick. With 100 MB calling out my name over at Yahoo, I see very little incentive.
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